Blog 16.5: Women
It is a known fact that the ratio of men to women in jail and prison is drastic. A man’s percentage in jail or prison defiantly surpasses a women’s by more than half. What is an interesting aspect of it is why each gender ends up in jail or prison. Focusing on the woman aspect of it, it is said that the majority of women usually end up i jail or prison for drug use or prositution. But going deeper into these reason ad after reading and having class discussions on it, I believe it is fair to say that a fair percentage of women who prostitute is an indirect cause of abuse. Whether it be sexual or physical. Now living in American and being a some what sheltered child I personally believe prostition to be woman standing on a street coner in a bad area trying to make money for their how should i put this- their pimp. But as I got older, I learned many women get forced into prositution by being sold from their own family! Another thing I ever thought about is how women tend to have or find pimps. After doing so research I learned that a common case is women who might have be abused when they were younger sometimes might run away to somewhere, where they feel safe with a boyfriend or something- then it turns out that usually the boyfriend would pimp out his own girlfriend! This shocked me because I can’t understand how you could do that to someone you loved. But after trying to wrap my head around it this was my conclusion- its a dominance thing, certain men in cases such as these want to be dominate and because the woman is already so vunerable and feels she has no where to go she agrees to this. It’s a sad situation but after the readings I realized this does happen a lot.
